College kids may be focus in 2008 race
“We want Jack! We want Jack!”
More than 50,000 voices — students, city residents, professors — chant together on the New Haven Green. Posters are everywhere: “Yale Professors 76% for Kennedy,” declares one. Bursts of applause fill New Haven’s cool autumn air.
No one can move. The Green is even more crowded than when Richard Nixon visited the campus earlier that year, holding up New Haven traffic for hours and attracting 30,000 students and residents. The News would describe the crowd awaiting Kennedy as “mammoth” in its breadth and enthusiasm.
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